Wall, gate piers, gates and railings for garden of Tullie
House (qv). Late C17 (could be C19 imitation). Red sandstone
ashlar gate piers and wall; cast-iron gates and railings.
Off-centre large rectangular rusticated piers on moulded
plinths, surmounted by projecting cornice and bracketed ball
finials. Flanking low wall on moulded plinth under flat
moulded coping. Spear and scrolled railings. Fresh appearance
of stone suggests replacement. Celia Fiennes on a visit to
Carlisle in 1698 said "one house which was the Chancellors
(Thomas Tullie) built of stone very lofty 5 good sarshe (sash)
windows in the front and this within a stone wall'd garden
well kept and iron gates to discover it to view with stone
pillars," see Christopher Morris (ed.) (1947). Brown (1951)
says "Tullie House had formerly a high wall in front, which Mr
George Dixon pulled down." However a 1791 watercolour of the
Abbey gate by Robert Carlyle shows the Tullie House wall in
the background and it looks much as it does today.
(Morris, Christopher: The Journeys of Celia Fiennes: 1947-:
P.202; Brown JW: Round Carlisle Cross: 1951-: P.113).

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